Gemma remembered that day pretty well. In the morning she was spending the time in the yard with her friends, throwing a ball they made from two worn out shoes. Then she ate a bowl of soup with two slices of bread and run around the town for a while. When she came back to their room, Maria said that she had to...

Getting back to K. wasn’t as easy as he would wish it to be. The wall was everywhere and it was impossible to come through its bricks unnoticed. Melquiades tried making use of the same way he departed for his lengthy student's exchange, but the sea was protected as fiercely as the rest of the country. He resorted to legal methods and applied...

Melquiades’ life was full of those lovely monotonous days filled with peace, boredom, routine tasks, new books read, new languages acquired, diplomas obtained while all-the-important-world-matters were happening behind his back. He hadn’t experienced war, the news of the international conflict of World War 2 hit him hard, but no harder than the extinction of animals in his home country. At first, he missed...

Melquiades was about thirteen years old when his father noticed something strange in the fields. Two foxes were lying dead with their eyes wide open and claws spread like having undergone some serious electric shock. Next were the cows. One after another they suddenly stopped drinking water, their tongues turned purple, eyes - grayish and the whole physique changed into what would be...